Constance Garnett

[Marian Schwartz]

I downloaded that interview when it first came out.  I'm not sure how to get 
it now, but the file's name is BBC3GARNETT.  Perhaps it can be located 
through the BBC website.

Marian Schwartz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michele A. Berdy" <maberdy at GMAIL.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Constance Garnett


> There are several books by members of the Garnett family:
>
> Constance Garnett, A Heroic Life by Richard Garnett (her grandson); 
> Sinclair-Stevenson 1991
> The Golden Echo by David Garnett (her son); Harcourt, Brace and Company 
> 1954
> The two editions of diaries of Olive Garnett (her sister-in-law): Tea and 
> Anarchy (1890-1893) and Olive and Stepniak (1893-1895); Barletts Press 
> 1989 and 1993 respectively).
>
> And also The Garnett Family: The History of a Literary Family by Carolyn 
> G. Heilbrun; The MacMillan Company, 1961.
>
> I've found them all via internet used book stores, although it took awhle 
> for the second diaries to show up for sale.
>
> There isn't much in print about her actual translating methods, 
> philosophy, etc., but I've read that a BBC interview late in life is 
> pretty much the best source for that.
>
> In 1891she and her husband became friends with Felix Volkhonsky, and she 
> credits him with two "great services" -- making her go for long walks 
> during her pregnancy and suggesting she learn Russian, which he helped her 
> with. By 1892 (!) she translated her first work, Goncharov's A Common 
> Story, although with a dictionary and slowly (for her). She found a 
> publisher for it in (I think) 1893 -- Heinemann.  I think she then did 
> some late Tolstoy, and then launched into Turgenev. Later in life she said 
> she regretted she did Turgenev before she had developed her translating 
> skills.
>
> I especially recommend the diaries, which were one of the main sources for 
> Richard's book.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JUDITH KORNBLATT" <jkornbla at WISC.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:37 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Constance Garnett
>
>
>> Does anyone know of a source on the translator Constance Garnett? A 
>> colleague is writing a book on the British Museum's Reading Room and the 
>> early women writers, translators, and scholars who were associated with 
>> it, and it seems that our very own Garnett plays an important role. How 
>> did she learn Russian? Who did she translate first? Who was the 
>> publisher? Any leads are appreciated. Thank you.
>
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